Yr-Old Strategically Planned Residential Area Unearthed in Israel Is Region's 'Largest and Oldest' Bronze Age City Over ...

Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often ...

Cutting-edge technology allows a team of Israeli researchers to determine that mysterious ironclad remains found in a church near Jerusalem belonged to a woman ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered the remains of a nun who practised an extreme form of asceticism. Dubbed “The Nun of ...

The wealth of material recovered from the site is so stunning that archaeologists believe this discovery will allow research ...

The first archaeological evidence of extreme asceticism practiced by nuns was discovered in Jerusalem. A female skeleton, found wrapped in chains during an excavation by the Israel Antiquities ...

The exhibition showcases breathtaking photographs from archaeological sites and from significant moments of discovery during ...

Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in heavy metal chains.

The furor erupted after the Israel Antiquities Authority moved a five-ton fallen stone from the Western Wall to an exhibition at Ben Gurion International Airport.

In contrast to the victim of get-refusal, the war widows desperately wanted to stay with their husbands. They became agunot ...